From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 06:24:41 -0700
Subject: "Fair Use Too Often Goes Unused"
From today's Chronicle of Higher Education and, appropriate to the
topic, not behind their paywall:

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Fair-Use-Too-Often-Goes-Unused/240033?cid=wcontentgrid_hp_2

The people for whom fair use is perhaps most intended -- educational
users -- also tend to inhabit extremely conservative institutions when
it comes to legal issues and can get easily dissuaded from exercise of
rights by even a very thin chance of legal action.  Content providers,
on the other hand, are rarely shy about claiming all their rights and
more.  This piece focuses on "quotation" of visual material (stills
from a motion picture, etc.), but the argument has general validity.

Jim O'Donnell
Arizona State University